Word: working
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Kaiser got no substantial changes in work rules, but with an efficient new plant he is happily spared the worst abuses of the work-rule tradition anyway...
Anew book by Eric Hodgins, author of the Blandings novels, is an event. Doubly so when it is illustrated by the deft hand of Cartoonist Alan Dunn. This week Doubleday & Company brings out their combined work: Enough Time? The Pattern of Executive Life ($2.50), published in cooperation with TIME, the Weekly Newsmagazine. On this page...
...fringe-benefit boost worth 11.25? an hour, only a quarter of a cent more than the last industry-wide offer. To the Kaiser company, the terms made special sense because of its special situation, which includes a $14-a-ton West Coast premium on certain steel shapes, a newer work force costing less for pension improvements...
Long since eliminated from the stalemate were such negotiable issues as wage hikes, on which the gap remained only a cent an hour. The big difference was one of principle, to wit, the industry's need for more flexible work rules so that the mills can use their work forces more efficiently to cover the costs of higher wages and higher benefits. Snapped R. Conrad Cooper, U.S. Steel Corp. vice president and top industry negotiator: "The basic position of the steel companies is not about to crumble whether or not there is an injunction." And even though auto assembly...
...beyond the easy pickings of the minors, soon hit the stiffened wall of major company resistance. Top steel negotiators declared that the Kaiser contract 1) would cost non-Kaiser companies nearly half again as much, 2) provided contract reopening in 1961, which was "intolerable to all," and 3) left work rules to be settled "on a case-by-case basis at the pleasure of the union...